Under the Bones

was now. He’d made it through the bowels of the church up to the nave. There was only the center aisle and then the door that would let him out of this place.
Only a few feet more…
Yet the world was shaking. No, he was shaking. From blood loss and coursing pain. His body would go into complete shock at any moment.
“No?” Nico teased again. His voice hissed directly into Konstantine’s ear now. “Surely you knew this was how you would die. Surely you knew I would be the one.”
Konstantine supposed he did know he would die like this. On his back, his guts pumped f

toes of his leather boots scraped along the stone floor,

punched-out sockets.

, he would black out

Waiting for orders. Waiting to die

The sound of a hungry beast in pursuit,

So many men in the world that she wanted to see at the other end of her gun

Lou knew the truth.

That if someone opened her up, they would find only darkness inside.

Without her aunt, she’d have no reason to pretend anymore. No one to convince that she was still human with a human heart